Variety stores · Massachusetts

242 Medford MA

Medford, MA · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

242 Medford MA runs at 428% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Variety stores workplace, earning a grade F.

242 Medford MA: 14.6 TCR = 428% of Variety stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

242 Medford MA safety composite

242 Medford MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−14.4

2016→2017

242 Medford MA injury rate improved

242 Medford MA's TCR fell 14.4 from 21.8 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 21.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=21.8 · 2017=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Medford, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 428% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #82/83
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5179…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5179 Sicklerville, N (0.1 TCR gap)

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242 Medford MA in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 242 Medford MA averages 14.6 TCR (428% of the Variety stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

242 Medford MA TCR series: 2016=21.8 · 2017=7.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 242 Medford MA falls in its industry

2,120 Variety stores establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 83 Variety stores employers in Massachusetts.

242 Medford MA (93 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 020406080100 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 242 Medford MA
242 Medford MA (93 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

242 Medford MA has more employees than the Variety stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2017 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2016 21.8 14.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MA · Medford

2,120 Variety stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 54 employers in Medford, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5179 Sicklerville, N 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Fridays Daily Discount Store-Dyer 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 413 Meredith NH 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5436 Riverside, CA 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MassGrow Athol 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Clear Plumbing 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andover Office 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darling Ingredients: Peabody 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose Wakefield Hospital 1,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawrence Memorial Hospital 584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Medford 134 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bond Brothers, Inc. 414 FTE
NAT-TCR Holland - WH 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-CAE-COLUMBIA-PD 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 21 Beverly-Rancocas Rd 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Classics Inc 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Greene Haven LLC 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forsyth Manor Inc 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 242 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homestead Center 93 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.